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Language and Nature - Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Paperback)
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Language and Nature - Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
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This book includes thirty contributions - twenty-nine papers and
one artistic contribution - by John's colleagues, former students,
and friends, on a variety of topics that represent John's
versatility and many interests, including philology, history,
natural history, and art. Many of the papers concentrate on the
Akkadian speaking world, reflecting one of the major languages John
Huehnergard has worked on throughout the years. Eran Cohen reviews
and discusses the functional value of Akkadian iprus in conditional
clauses in epistolary and legal texts. Lutz Edzard discusses the
Akkadian injunctive umma, used in oath formulae. Daniel Fleming
asks who were the 'Apiru people mentioned in Egyptian texts in the
Late Bronze Age and what was their social standing as is reflected
in the Amarna letters. Shlomo Izre'el offers a revised and improved
version of his important study of the language of the Amarna
letters. Leonid Kogan offers a comparative etymological study of
botanical terminology in Akkadian, while Josef Tropper argues that
Akkadian poetry, as well as Northwest Semitic poetry, are based on
certain metric principles. Wilfred von Soldt lists and discusses
personal names ending in -ayu from Amarna. A number of papers deal
with Arabic grammarians and their concepts of language. Gideon
Goldenberg discusses the concept of vocalic length in Arabic
grammatical tradition and in the medieval Hebrew tradition that was
its product. Wolfhart Heinrichs's contribution shows that Ibn
Khaldun held innovative views of language and its evolution.
Several other papers deal with Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible. Steven
Fassberg deals with verbal t-forms that do not exhibit the expected
metathesis in Hebrew and Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Randall
Garr studies one class of denominal hiphil verbs and asks why these
verbs are assigned to the causative stem despite their
non-causative semantic content. Ed Greenstein suggests that the
roots of biblical wisdom can be located in second-millennium
Canaanite literature by identifying wisdom sayings and themes in
the Ugaritic corpus. Jeremy Hutton sheds more light on tG forms in
Biblical Hebrew. Paul Korchin explains occurrences of the
cohortative in Biblical Hebrew that do not conform to the normative
volitive function. Dennis Pardee provides a detailed study of the
Hebrew verbal system as primarily expressing aspect, not tense.
Gary A. Rendsburg argues in favor of Late Biblical Hebrew features
in the book of Haggai. Four papers deal with linguistic aspects of
non-Classical Semitic languages. Charles Haberl looks into
predicates of verbless sentences in Semitic and particularly in
Neo-Mandaic. Geoffrey Khan discusses the functional differences
between the preterite and the perfect in NENA. Aaron D. Rubin
provides Semitic etymologies of two Modern South Arabian words.
Ofra Tirosh-Becker discusses the language of the Judeo-Arabic
translation of the books of Prophets. Papers on comparative
Semitics are likewise numerous. Jo Ann Hackett takes another look
at Ugaritic yaqtul and argues for the existence of a preterite
yaqtul on comparative grounds, among others. Rebecca Hasselbach
tackles the evasive origin of the Semitic verbal endings -u and -a.
Na'ama Pat-El continues the discussion of the origin of the Hebrew
relative particle seC- from a syntactic and comparative
perspective. Richard C. Steiner proposes a new vowel syncope rule
for Proto Semitic. David Testen argues for a different
reconstruction of the Semitic case system. Tamar Zewi shows that
prepositional phrases can function as subjects in a variety of
Semitic languages. Andrzej Zaborski suggests that Berber and
Cushitic preserve archaic features that have been lost for the most
part in the Semitic languages. There is one paper on an
Indo-European language with important ties to Semitic languages in
P. Oktor Skjaervo discussion of the Pahlavi verb *awas 'to dry.'
Finally, Richard Walton contributes a paper about the jumping
spiders of Concord, Massachusetts, a project he labored on with
John Huehnergard. The book is beautifully decorated by the drawings
of the artist X Bonnie Woods, who prepared special illustration for
this volume, based on cuneiform.
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